Let's just put it out there: life is far too complex to have all the answers. But the good news is that there seem to be plenty of people who learn from their slip-ups, embrace them, and decide to pass their precious wisdom to everyone online.
And TikToker Sidneyraz is one of them. With 2.7M followers and counting, he continues to share some very relatable yet easy and sometimes even hilarious hacks for our daily routines. With his series of viral videos, Sidneyraz tells his fans "things I didn’t know before I was in my 30s" and presents them in funny home situations.
Since he’s been busy creating new clips, Bored Panda has put together a new compilation of tips and tricks to help you better navigate everyday life. So check them out right below and tell us what you think in the comments! After you're done taking notes, take a peek at Parts 1 and 2 of this post right here and here.
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This Hole Is For Cutting This Spout
It even says "spout cutter", put it in, snip easy and great
You're Supposed To Microwave Things On The Outside Of The Microwave Tray
Yes. A spot that rotates right in the centre can get missed, resulting in cold dinner
The Reason Why Jackets Have Shoulder Straps
They were originally designed to keep backpacks ammunition pouches or bayonets from slipping off your shoulder.
Would save me a lot of shoulder and neck issues. Can someone invent an easy click-on (not-too-easy-) click-off system?
As smart as we think we are, we all have gaps in our knowledge. We might spend our whole lives believing we know how to properly operate the microwave or the right way to wear our running shoes. Then, when someone points out that the complete opposite of what we thought is true, we can’t help but scratch our heads in confusion.
Sidneyraz is on a mission to show us we're not the only ones by sharing super simple and obvious know-how life tips. The creator told Bored Panda in a previous interview that he decided to start this series after people positively reacted to his video "Here's something you should know about being in your 30s. It's better than your 20s."
"My most popular videos are ones that have to do with the most common items that people use. Travel pillows, English muffins, trash bags, plungers, and so on," Sidneyraz explained. "We all use the same things every day and [without questioning them] because that's how we were taught, but we have no idea why or if it's even right. So when I post a video showing a different way, it blows minds."
You're Supposed To Shake Out The Popcorn Kernels That Haven't Popped Through This Little Opening
That little opening is a steam vent, it typically pops open about 20 seconds before the popping is done. Fancier microwaves have a steam detector to turn it off at the right time and make perfect popcorn every time. You just found an alternate use for that opening.
You Can Use Tin Foil To Get The Static Out Of Your Hair
BRILLIANT !!! I S O need this. I am continuously like Monica from friends.
The Blow Dryer Has A Filter You're Supposed To Clean
The TikToker also revealed there's more to this life phase than just figuring out simple life hacks. "We tend to experience both heartbreak and true joy before our 30s too. There are large ups and downs but, hopefully, they help us to be more empathetic people. They’re hard lessons but needed."
"I’m learning all these things too and I don’t want anyone to feel as alone as I have in the past when I didn’t know something [older folks understood quite well]," Sidneyraz added.
You're Supposed To Apply Deodorant At Night
The complete opposite of what all of us thought.
Absolutely. Have been doing this for over a year now and successfully converted husband and our teenager.
Faucets Have Filters That You're Supposed To Replace And Clean
They're called aerators. It's recommended that you replace the aerators annually.
You Can Pick Up Hard Boiled Eggs With A Whisk
I find tongs to be the easiest. Plus I get to do the *click click*
We previously spoke with Joshua Klapow, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist and creator of MentalDrive, about why so many of us realize obvious things only later in life. He explained people often take everyday things for granted "only to pay more attention to those actions and interactions that grab our attention. The obvious goes in the background, so we reserve brain bandwidth to notice the novel, standout occurrences in our life."
As we grow older, there are fewer things that look different to us. "We call that maturity and growth and development," the clinical psychologist said. Then, we can look at the seemingly common in a more careful, more detailed way. "And when we do, we often discover that that obvious has so much more to it that we missed earlier on."
How You're Actually Supposed To Wear Running Shoes
This little hole is called a "heel lock" and you're supposed to use it. Same side lace goes through the hole, the opposite side lace goes through that loop and heel gets locked.
How To Control A Pour From Any Container That Has One Of These
Take it out, put it back in upside down, and pour.
If you want more control, pour while the hole is nearer to you, so that the liquid travels over the longer side of the container. Seems counterintuitive but it works.
How To Read Interstate Exit Signs
Specifically the importance of the position of this little guy. What is the significance of the position of the exit number sign on the top of the exit sign? It's an indication of whether the exit location is to the right, left, or straight.
When certain things are visible to us in plain sight and we somehow fail to notice them, it’s easy to feel ashamed. Klapow explained we feel this way because the obvious is often simple and clear to everyone else.
He mentioned we feel embarrassed for several reasons. The first would be that we simply missed what others saw. Then, "we may have made mistakes, hurt others, missed out on opportunities because we didn't see the obvious. Lastly, we have to acknowledge to others and ourselves that despite how we think of ourselves or how we are seen by others, we have missed something."
How You're Actually Supposed To Light A Candle With More Than One Wick
You do not light them one by one. You light one and then use that to light the others.
How To Tie A Robe
You don't put the rope in the back, take it out, put it in the front, and then tie. It's nice and tighter.
One Horse Does Not Equal One Horsepower, It Equals 15
More precisely 14.9, and actually no one knows how precise that number is. Because James Watt just lied for marketing.
He did not lie. He has calculated CONTINIOUS work for a work horse. Not just a horse pulling weight for a short amount of time. They are not machines so they can't work full power all the time. In order to work for hours, they need to pace themselves just like any other animal. Thus, one horse power is the rough equivalent of the work horse that is working continuously for about 4 hours shifts, everyday, do in a single hour. This is not precise because there is no "standard horse". Some are stronger, some are weaker. Do not insult men that are way smarter than you and do not presume to know better than scientists just because you google some information. And as Markus specified, modern definition of horse power is a very precise, calculable unit of measurement. And no, a horse power is NOT 14.9 horse power. That's not the definition, never was.
The clinical psychologist said we should turn the internal dialog around and tell ourselves: "I now see things differently, more clearly, and that is going to help me from this day moving forward." Then, embarrassment "can transition into gratitude and excitement for arriving at the discovery of the obvious."
"We are growing, learning, adapting organisms. What is foreign at one point in time can become obvious later as we learn and develop. At any point in our life, we have a chance to look at what we see every day and look at it differently. We never know what we may discover if we are courageous enough to consider the obvious when the world around us is telling us it is sitting right in front of us," Klapow concluded.
The Easiest Way To Open Up This Annoying Seal
With that little piece of plastic, take the cap and push it down. Just use the cap.
How You're Actually Supposed To Dry Shoes In The Dryer
Go to the dryer, tie the shoes together, open the dryer, put the shoes in, turn on the dryer.
BP edit: put the shoes in but leave the laces out. That way they'll hang and won't wake up the entire neighbourhood nor wreck your dryer.
Zippers Have A Lock
The lock automatically locks when no force is placed on the tab-pull. Let's test this out. Tab pulled down - locked. Tab pulled slightly up - unlocked.
The Scooter Handles Are Finger Guards
This is how everyone rode the scooters (left) and we were all wrong. This is how you're supposed to ride the scooters (right).
Who the hell was gonna ride it like on the right? That's maybe how its supposed to be ridden, but everyone rode it like the left because that was the fun way. Who needs fingers, anyhow?
There's A Lock For The Mustard Cap
The Best Way To Reheat Pizza
The two ways that I know of are in the microwave or in the oven. The third one: put the pizza in a pan, pour water, and cover it with foil. Tastes like a fresh pizza.
The Sun Is Not On Fire
The sun does not burn like we think of logs in a fire or paper burning. There's no oxygen in space fire needs oxygen.
LIES! Obviously it leaves and moon comes and takes it's place /s
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Kind of but at the same time not really. The short version is that oxygen makes burning a lot easier but is not strictly required as long as you have something else that acts in a similar way. The usual flames you see/think of is carbon combusting, which does need oxygen. But there are other elements & combinations that don't, such as magnesium + fluorine. The fluorine acts in the same role as the oxygen. Nuclear reactions are another. And we all know the sun is a giant nuclear reaction going on. Again, oxygen makes things much easier, but you can get around it.
So, okay, burning does not have to involve Oxygen strictly, but it is a chemical reaction that involves an oxidization process to release light and heat. The sun isn't undergoing chemical reactions: it's frankly too hot, as plasma is ionized and has to cool before it can have electrons capable of making bonds. Instead the energy of the sun is from the direct mass to energy conversion that happens for fusion products lighter than iron (this is why things lighter than iron are much more abundant than things heavier, which have to be created in things like supernovae). This is also why stars tend to have an oscillating stage at the end of their lives after the concentration of helium gets too high in the core and the star collapses from less fusion energy pushing against gravity only to surge as the increased pressure increases the fusion rate significantly. An oxidizing reaction would not have nearly enough access to energy to sustain the output of the sun by a long shot.
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I'm sorry you learned this in your 30's I think I knew this when I was 10. Next up, the blue sky isn't an ocean suspended over our heads.
There's a whole bunch of kids in my highschool class that dont know this so don't be too harsh!
You can actually search this and find that it is, indeed, not on fire.
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The sun is a nuclear reactor, actually. That's y it puts out radiation that is harmful to ppl, which we r protected from by the Earth's magnetic field, ad ozone layer, which we r destroying as fast as we can.
Lmao well thats a big no f****n s**t, really?!..god PLEASE tell me u didn't just figure that out before turning 30!!!...guess what, now THIS reallllly gonna blow your mind, u might wanna sit down for this...the sun, its actually a STAR, like lot of the others u see, but at NIGHT!
As much I remember, the Sun lightens and brightens due to cyclic change of fission and fusion.
I have two questions: 1) Why does he believe knowing this sooner would have improved his life? 2) Why didn't he?
This might explain it.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JdWlSF195Y&ab_channel=TMBGkids
Duh, it shines because of the energy released due to nuclear fusion... When the star runs out of stuff to fuse into heavier elements the star dies.. if it has plenty of material but the next element up is iron, it has seconds to live. Iron takes more energy to fuse then it releases so it results in star-death. All the iron everywhere was made that way....
Another fun fact: light born deep inside the sun bounces around for very long periods of time before finally making its way out. Also, the second the sun starts creating iron, it dies very, very fast.
How You're Actually Supposed To Use An Air Freshener
Your tree can last up to seven weeks if you follow these steps. Each week expose more or less of tree. There's even a diagram for us.
There's A Way To Clean In Between The Glass On The Oven. Apparently It's At The Bottom
You Don't Need To Shake The Seasoning Shaker, Just Hold It And Twist It
How To Open A Bottle Of Wine
Go get a corkscrew or a wine key. Using the serrated edge or the corkscrew, twist the bottle around and remove that foil. Let the bottle do the work for you, push down and twist. Create leverage and enjoy. Responsibly.
Growing up in Europe, that is one of those basic live skills you learn as a child.😅 I would equate this with knowing how to use a can opener.
You Can Just Pull Out A Double Knot
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Is it just me or is this bloke a complete moron? I fully expected one of these to be something like, when taking a bath remove your clothes otherwise they will get wet.
I was waiting for the "the gas pump symbol in your car points to which side the tank is on derp"
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Alternate title: 30 things everyone already knows, as told by somebody insufferable.
Thank you. If this was a list of things that I* wanted to know before I turned 30, I'd tie a large rock to my ankle and jump off a bridge.
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Some of the first few ones were helpful, like the static hair one, but the rest were either obvious or didn't work
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It may come as a complete surprise to some, there are young people, even college graduates who were not taught cooking or even basic aspects of household management. Not everyone had proper parenting or a parent-figure in their life growing up. There is no shame in asking questions. Wouldn’t it be nice if there were more people willing to be a mentor to some young people instead of judging them or those who wish to teach.
Thank you! I knew most of these, but a couple were interesting, and I found the condescension from the know-it-alls quite unhelpful.
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I think these were great, especially the ones at the beginning. If you already knew these things and are angered to read them again, congrats, I bow down to your superiority and humbly suggest that you ask your captors to quit physically forcing you to read them against your will
Something I learned only recently I'm embarrassed to admit is that toasters have little drawers underneath that you can pull out and clean. I felt so dumb but I literally never knew that.
The one I have now does but I've had toasters in the past that haven't - maybe that was the same for you.
Load More Replies... Can we please stop complaining about stuff simply because it's from a site you hate?
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That's pretty sad, Jan. Especially because you seem to be excited about learning these things when half of his list is just stuff he's either made up or is *still* using wrong...
Load More Replies... "The sun is not on fire" basically tells you who you're taking advice from
"You know the metal hole on the floor of one end of your bathtub? That's actually the drain. Water is supposed to go down there."
I'm 41 and I just discovered that the door of the petrol cap on my car has a little holder for the petrol cap. That blew my mind. These 27 things, not so much.
Seems to me this guy discovered some of these things a bit late in life - and quite a few others he just made up.
If this list made you angry enough to leave comments about how absolutely every one of thesr tips is already known... then you are honestly quite a dumbass. Seriously, if yoy are incapable of comprehending that no human being is born with knowledge on everything which means not everyone already knows tbis s**t and thus have to learn it from SOMEONE else at some time... then you are a complete idiot who has forgotten that they too at one time were an uneducated child. Seriously, if you aren't getting any good tips... just leave. At most you took 5 mins of your life to read through this list. Not a big deal.
The same could be said about your reply. Nobody made you read all the comments. Or did they?
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ya there may have been one or two things in there I didn't know. I also never incountered the situation like cleaning the oven glass.
Should be called "Man Child Who Recently Stopped Living with Mom Discovers Basic Everyday Life Skills"
I follow him on Instagram and I think Bored Panda just chose his simplest explanations; there are a lot more interesting ones on his feed.
I found many of these suggestions helpful. I'm sure I'm not the only one.
This list is only for people who've been living under a rock their whole life
Hey the egg thing and robe tying are new to me. So it wasn't a waste of time considering I'm about to boil and dye eggs😊
Someone must find him absolutely frigging brilliant, because BP keeps bringing him back.
So many bitter boomers in the comments! My question to you is, why does this dude have to teach YOUR adult children common knowledge things 🤔
Hey everyone bashing this I bet you aren't a 16 year old trying to figure out how to live like an adult, so be an adult, don't get mad at him because you had someone or something to teach you these things already, and just find something else to read. Or you could be an even better person and add other stuff that could be helpful.
As a 16 year old trying to learn useful skills, I already knew most of these, and the ones that I didn't weren't that helpful (such as the tinfoil hair thing)
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Lol... The most entertaining part to me is watching all the people diss the man in the pictures who didn't even write the article...lol
"Man discovers that when you untie shoes, they untie" Utterly useless
Wetness is a term used for when water or some other kind of liquid is on top of or covering a surface or object. Therefore, saying that water is wet is implying that water is on top of water, which cannot be. So, no, water isn't wet but it is a liquid. It merely makes other things wet.
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Is it just me or is this bloke a complete moron? I fully expected one of these to be something like, when taking a bath remove your clothes otherwise they will get wet.
I was waiting for the "the gas pump symbol in your car points to which side the tank is on derp"
Load More Replies... Alternate title: 30 things everyone already knows, as told by somebody insufferable.
Thank you. If this was a list of things that I* wanted to know before I turned 30, I'd tie a large rock to my ankle and jump off a bridge.
Load More Replies... Some of the first few ones were helpful, like the static hair one, but the rest were either obvious or didn't work
Load More Replies... It may come as a complete surprise to some, there are young people, even college graduates who were not taught cooking or even basic aspects of household management. Not everyone had proper parenting or a parent-figure in their life growing up. There is no shame in asking questions. Wouldn’t it be nice if there were more people willing to be a mentor to some young people instead of judging them or those who wish to teach.
Thank you! I knew most of these, but a couple were interesting, and I found the condescension from the know-it-alls quite unhelpful.
Load More Replies... I think these were great, especially the ones at the beginning. If you already knew these things and are angered to read them again, congrats, I bow down to your superiority and humbly suggest that you ask your captors to quit physically forcing you to read them against your will
Something I learned only recently I'm embarrassed to admit is that toasters have little drawers underneath that you can pull out and clean. I felt so dumb but I literally never knew that.
The one I have now does but I've had toasters in the past that haven't - maybe that was the same for you.
Load More Replies... Can we please stop complaining about stuff simply because it's from a site you hate?
Load More Replies... That's pretty sad, Jan. Especially because you seem to be excited about learning these things when half of his list is just stuff he's either made up or is *still* using wrong...
Load More Replies... "The sun is not on fire" basically tells you who you're taking advice from
"You know the metal hole on the floor of one end of your bathtub? That's actually the drain. Water is supposed to go down there."
I'm 41 and I just discovered that the door of the petrol cap on my car has a little holder for the petrol cap. That blew my mind. These 27 things, not so much.
Seems to me this guy discovered some of these things a bit late in life - and quite a few others he just made up.
If this list made you angry enough to leave comments about how absolutely every one of thesr tips is already known... then you are honestly quite a dumbass. Seriously, if yoy are incapable of comprehending that no human being is born with knowledge on everything which means not everyone already knows tbis s**t and thus have to learn it from SOMEONE else at some time... then you are a complete idiot who has forgotten that they too at one time were an uneducated child. Seriously, if you aren't getting any good tips... just leave. At most you took 5 mins of your life to read through this list. Not a big deal.
The same could be said about your reply. Nobody made you read all the comments. Or did they?
Load More Replies... ya there may have been one or two things in there I didn't know. I also never incountered the situation like cleaning the oven glass.
Should be called "Man Child Who Recently Stopped Living with Mom Discovers Basic Everyday Life Skills"
I follow him on Instagram and I think Bored Panda just chose his simplest explanations; there are a lot more interesting ones on his feed.
I found many of these suggestions helpful. I'm sure I'm not the only one.
This list is only for people who've been living under a rock their whole life
Hey the egg thing and robe tying are new to me. So it wasn't a waste of time considering I'm about to boil and dye eggs😊
Someone must find him absolutely frigging brilliant, because BP keeps bringing him back.
So many bitter boomers in the comments! My question to you is, why does this dude have to teach YOUR adult children common knowledge things 🤔
Hey everyone bashing this I bet you aren't a 16 year old trying to figure out how to live like an adult, so be an adult, don't get mad at him because you had someone or something to teach you these things already, and just find something else to read. Or you could be an even better person and add other stuff that could be helpful.
As a 16 year old trying to learn useful skills, I already knew most of these, and the ones that I didn't weren't that helpful (such as the tinfoil hair thing)
Load More Replies... Lol... The most entertaining part to me is watching all the people diss the man in the pictures who didn't even write the article...lol
"Man discovers that when you untie shoes, they untie" Utterly useless
Wetness is a term used for when water or some other kind of liquid is on top of or covering a surface or object. Therefore, saying that water is wet is implying that water is on top of water, which cannot be. So, no, water isn't wet but it is a liquid. It merely makes other things wet.
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